Re: Countrylink Alcohol Problems

[ROBERT SCHROEDER <bobschroeder@optushome.com.au>]

Non-alcohol carriages no longer exist on Countrylink XPT's (never did
on Xpl's).
Most problems with alcohol are caused by people joining train already
tanked up and it then only takes a few more drinks for them to become
a problem.
Better to get rid of them early in the journey when it is easy to get
police. After Maitland difficult to get any prior to Taree. Therefore
better to have full strength beer as they take longer on light.
Why should 99% of passengers be brought down to the lowest common
denominator because of a few yobbos? 
Better to train staff to deal with alcohol problems and treat the
majority as the decent people that they are.



On Sun, 09 Jul 2000 03:55:30 GMT, usenet.spam@gunzel.net (Michael
Kurkowski) wrote:

>eikkert@my-deja.com wrote in <8k8p4n$5cp$1@nnrp1.deja.com>:
>

>
>Countrylink also have a couple of cars (C and D??) where alcohol is not 
>allowed to be consumed. It would be nice if they offered the passengers a 
>choice of alcohol or non alchohol accomodation. As far as I go, I don't 
>drink alcohol much, so where possible I request seat C21 both ways. The 
>only downfall is the buffet is right in the middle of the alcohol 
>consumption exclusion zone, so you still occasionally have to cope with the 
>alcoholic drongos making a nuisence of themselves, fully tanked, trying to 
>walk through your non-alcohol car. This is not to say that all people under 
>the influence are drongos of course, but there are the few, as mentioned 
>above that spoil it for all.
>
>Michael